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Research on the crime control industry

Prisonsucks.com is a clearinghouse for useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry. Too often prison activists use statistics that are out of date, provided without citation or simply wrong. One of these days the public will start listening to prison activists, so let's be prepared to win without being sidetracked by arguments over defective statistics. In some cases, the numbers we need don't exist. In others, the facts exist but activists don't know where to find them. Now you do.

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AFSCME statement on prison privatization ^popular (Added: 12-Nov-2001 Hits: 412)

Prison Privatization Research Site - from UConn Professor Charles H. Logan ^popular (Added: 25-Nov-2001 Hits: 780)

Competitive Corrections Research Project - from the libertarian Reason Public Policy Institute (Added: 10-Mar-2002 Hits: 221)

Corrections Corporation of American (Added: 25-Nov-2001 Hits: 270)

Don't be a prisoner to empty promises - 5 Empty Promises of Prison Privatization and the facts from AFSCME. (Added: 1-Feb-2002 Hits: 260)

GESO: Yale University Private Prison Divestment Campaign - This is the link to GESO's divestment petition demanding that Yale University divest (over $1.5 million) from Corrections Corporation of America. See also, www.geso.org for a research report on Yale's Investment in Corrections Corporation of America (Added: 14-Oct-2005 Hits: 40)

Presbyterian Church's Anti-Private Prison Work - Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (Added: 6-Feb-2004 Hits: 99)

Prison Privatisation Report International (PPRI) - published 6 times per year and reports on: global developments in the privatisation of prisons, detention centres and other elements of the criminal justice system; the performance of the leading companies; current academic and government research; and campaigns against privatisation. (Added: 9-Dec-2003 Hits: 248)

Private Corrections Institute - Founded to educate the public and elected officials to the problems with for-profit private prisons, jails and detention centers. (Added: 4-Mar-2004 Hits: 273)

Private Prisons: Profits of Crime - By Phil Smith, Covert Action Quarterly, Fall 1993 (Added: 7-Dec-2001 Hits: 278)

Privativization Research Links - from the PrisonSucks.com Research page. (Added: 28-Nov-2001 Hits: 210)

Privatization Links from yahoo (Added: 12-Nov-2001 Hits: 136)

Sparks fly over private vs public prisons - Contains a good critique & response to a somewhat pro-prison privatization study. (Added: 10-Mar-2002 Hits: 254)

Wackenhut (Added: 25-Nov-2001 Hits: 155)

Wardens from Wall Street: Prison Privatization - The second in a series of six pastoral statements by Catholic Bishops of the South on the Criminal Justice process and a gospel response. (Added: 1-Oct-2004 Hits: 115)

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